The glands are like tuning keys, by which certain strings in the instrument may be tightened, so that its vibratory activity is increased, or they may be loosened, the vibrations decreased, the activity lessened.

Tuning up the motors is a constant process in the organism.

In this work certain prominent subjects have been selected with which it behoves every one to be acquainted: such, for example, as relate to what may be called our HOUSEHOLD INSTRUMENTS, namely, the Thermometer, the Barometer, and Vernier; the Hydrometer, the Hygrometer; the Tuning-Fork, Musical Glasses and Music generally; the Compass; the Prism, the Telescope, and the Sun-Dial.

[physical resonance] sympathetic vibrations; natural frequency, coupled vibration frequency; overtone; resonating cavity; sounding board, tuning fork.

[electrical resonance] tuning, squelch, frequency selection; resonator, resonator circuit; radio &c [chemical resonance] resonant structure, aromaticity, alternating double bonds, non-bonded resonance; pi clouds, unsaturation, double bond, (valence).

[Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon^, xylophone.

I heard through the door the orchestra tuning for the prelude.

A programme had been printed on the camp mimeograph, the camp orchestra was tuning up, and a special overture had been composed by a young gentleman with the beautiful name of "Quentin Morvaren.

Calm and decisive, he takes his seat in his own room, like the conductor of an orchestra preparing to raise his baton now that the tuning-up is finished.

No star spangled heavens nor cool shady bowers, No deep ancient forest or fair fragrant flowers Can fill up the void that I feel in my breast, Although thou art tuning thy harp with the blest.

With E7th and high bass tuning.

Electric Hawaiian guitar method high bass tuning.

Home study course in piano tuning, regulation and repairing.

Scientific piano tuning and servicing.

Teacher course for The New technichord system and tuning (for 6, 7, 8 and 10 string instruments); teacher lesson no. 1.

The New technichord system and tuning (for 6, 7, 8 and 10 string instruments); music lesson no.

Fiddles, sand-patterns, colored robes, gongs, giant tuning-forks, wax-sheeted walls, aged-faces-turned-young and caverns-by-the-sea jostled one another in his memory with a jumble of disproportion quite inextricable.

"He's upside down in the Tuning Fork trench system at the present moment," said I. "The Babe and the grooms are digging him out.

Instrument needs tuning!

We were tuning up for the business in hand.

Tuning a psalmA black thingA double tongued womanA doleful noiseBurning the herbsThe sick childGardiner's oxThe dead ramBurning "the sow's tale" Goodwife Howell, during her illness which hastened Elizabeth's arrest, "tuned a psalm and screked out several times together very grievously," and cried "a witch!

The speed of the drum can be recorded by a pencil in the end of a tuning fork which gives a known number of vibrations per second.

TUNING UP X. FULL CHORUS XI.

John's house, though it showed evidently enough that it was a rich man's abode, had a comfortable homeliness about it, but it had always been a costly house to keep, and now that it was less than ever needful to him to save money, he did not want to hear recriminations concerning such petty matters as the too frequent tuning of the schoolroom piano, and the unprofitable fabrics which had been bought for the children's dresses.

But Nino would never have any other, for De Pretis had a very good one; and Nino studies without anythingjust a common tuning-fork that he carries in his pocket.